Fix for Reddit video freeze – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1177.5
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@felipefpl Not especially. I just looked up your previous posts.
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@luetage: the ones mentioned by pesala below aside all the others which we were asked for in the survey.
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@burbuja: i see but not interested in email client (i know it's cool for some but i prefer online access) only the other features i want are really missed.
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@felipefpl "online access" -- do you mean web-mail?
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I noticed that Opera's new stable release (out a few days ago) is Chromium 66-based, while even the test version of Vivaldi is based on 65. Given recent release patterns, the next Vivaldi stable won't come until late June at the earliest, by which time...you get the point.
Yes, yes, I know Vivaldi, for reasons, is always X weeks behind Chromium, but this gap is widening, as it is even widening between Vivaldi and the competition (why aren't they having the same problem?).
I don't see how 1.16 can stay with 65; it basically has no choice but to skip right to 66, else face the prospect of falling hopelessly behind. Why didn't it start with 66 in the first place? A couple months were going to transpire anyway between the start of testing and release. Isn't that enough time?
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@rseiler I don't know why you don't understand it yet. It has been stated enough times already.
@ayespy said in Chromium Engine - Why doesn't Vivaldi use the latest one?:
As a rule, we run somewhere between two and six weeks behind whatever version Chrome is using. It's necessary, because we have to fix everything a new Chromium intake breaks before we can release.
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@rseiler It has already been said that 1.16 incorporates security fixes backports from chr66 and it will jump directly to chr67 when ready.
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@rseiler So what? Vivaldi falls behind in chromium releases, what's the big deal? Vivaldi can jump chromium releases or just stay behind. The security concerns are overhyped. For one these can be backported and they aren't even that big of a deal compared to personal account/password management and common sense (which most users lack).
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@rseiler said in Fix for Reddit video freeze – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1177.5:
(why aren't they having the same problem?).
Having a totally different kind of UI layer and ten times as many developers might have something to do with this. Vivaldi has fallen behind and skipped a Chromium version before. This is not the first time and likely won't be the last.
If "latest Chromium version" is the most important aspect of a browser, then everyone should just use Chromium and forget this dumb "developing browser features" stuff, yeah? On the other hand, if "latest Chromium version" were the most important thing, would you be here? Hmmmm.
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@gwen-dragon: That's great news.
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@pesala said in Fix for Reddit video freeze – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1177.5:
@rseiler I don't know why you don't understand it yet. It has been stated enough times already.
@ayespy said in Chromium Engine - Why doesn't Vivaldi use the latest one?:
As a rule, we run somewhere between two and six weeks behind whatever version Chrome is using. It's necessary, because we have to fix everything a new Chromium intake breaks before we can release.
Because it's not two to six weeks behind anymore? Even at this early stage (if 1.16 were to ship today), let alone when it's roughly expected to ship.
As far as I'd heard, 1.16 will have 65. I see that @iANCooG mentions that it will end up with 67 (due May 29), skipping two releases and maybe getting things back on track. If that comes to pass, great.
1.16 will probably be available in the July time-frame if the recent pattern holds. Possibly August.
Chrome 65 was released on MAR 6.
Now do you understand my puzzlement why we're still testing 65 on MAY 13? By the time it rolls out in July, it would be about 16 weeks behind (again, I missed the announcement about 67).
BTW, to answer the general question: I never said this was the most important thing. It's still an important thing to get newer versions of Chromium into test versions sooner rather than later. And we were/are trending so far into a "later" extreme that I thought it was worth bringing up.
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@rseiler said in Fix for Reddit video freeze – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1177.5:
As far as I'd heard, 1.16 will have 65
You've heard wrong.
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@rseiler said in Fix for Reddit video freeze – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1177.5:
(again, I missed the announcement about 67)
There has not been an announcement about 67. But it would be wrong to assume that 1.16 will be on 65, or even 66.
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@rseiler said in Fix for Reddit video freeze – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1177.5:
Because it's not two to six weeks behind anymore? Even at this early stage (if 1.16 were to ship today), let alone when it's roughly expected to ship.
As far as I'd heard, 1.16 will have 65. I see that @iANCooG mentions that it will end up with 67 (due May 29), skipping two releases and maybe getting things back on track. If that comes to pass, great.
1.16 will probably be available in the July time-frame if the recent pattern holds. Possibly August.
Chrome 65 was released on MAR 6.
Now do you understand my puzzlement why we're still testing 65 on MAY 13? By the time it rolls out in July, it would be about 16 weeks behind (again, I missed the announcement about 67).
BTW, to answer the general question: I never said this was the most important thing. It's still an important thing to get newer versions of Chromium into test versions sooner rather than later. And we were/are trending so far into a "later" extreme that I thought it was worth bringing up.
And? What exactly is it you think you will gain by having a Vivaldi version based on Chromium 66 or 67? Is there a new feature that you need? If so, what is it? Are there websites that will not render properly on anything less than Chromium 66 that you use on a regular basis? Help us to understand what it is you hope to get out of a Vivaldi using Chromium 66 or 67, and then maybe we can give you a better answer. So far, what I'm hearing you say is basically, "it's newer, so it must be better," which is not the most sound of positions to stake out. What am I, and/or the others, missing?
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@masterleo29
I miss that old dark theme too + in my case it doesn't get accents from the websites i am using by default and had to create the old theme based on it and enable those switches.
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Anyone else having problems browsing on Pinterest? Clicking on links does not seem to work... Works fine with Chrome.